Netflix‘s Too Much has viewers investigating who Jack Antonoff dated after Lena Dunham.

The comedy-drama series was created, written, and directed by Dunham and is loosely based on her move to London and love story with her now-husband, Luis Felber. So, naturally, the show has drummed up some speculation about who each character is based on, and Antonoff is at the center of that speculation.

In the show, Jessica (Megan Stalter) moves from New York to London after a brutal breakup with her ex-boyfriend Zev (Michael Zegen), who has since moved on and gotten engaged to influencer Wendy Jones (Emily Ratajkowski).

Wendy is living rent-free in Jessica’s mind throughout the show, and trying to figure out who her character is based on is living rent-free in ours.

Who Did Jack Antonoff Date After Lena Dunham?

Antonoff’s first public relationship after his split from Dunham was with model Carlotta Kohl. The pair were first linked in early 2018, after his December 2017 split from Dunham. Kohl joined Antonoff at the 2020 Grammys before splitting shortly afterwards.

In 2021, Antonoff started dating actress Margaret Qualley, whom he married in 2023.

Dunham and Antonoff dated from 2012 to 2017 and were an artsy “it” couple of the 2010s thanks to her success with Girls and his work writing and producing for Taylor Swift, who was also a close friend of the couple.

The couple split in December 2017, which Dunham discussed in a candid Vogue essay five months later. “We sat in our shared kitchen of nearly four years and quietly faced each other, acknowledging what nobody wanted to say,” Dunham wrote. “That our hearts were still broken from trying so hard to fix it, but no longer uncertain about whether or not we could. The finality nearly killed me.”

After their split, before Antonoff’s relationship with Kohl, the Bleachers frontman sparked dating speculation with singer Lorde, with whom he worked on her 2017 album Melodrama. However, he shut down this rumor with a tweet in January 2018, writing, “Normally I would never address rumors but I resent having the most important friendships and working relationships in my life reduced to dumb hetero normative gossip. Those relationships are deeply important and sacred. With that said, I’m not seeing anyone.”

Is Zev From ‘Too Much’ Based On Jack Antonoff?

Dunham confirmed to Vanity Fair that Zev is not based on one specific person but hinted that there may be parts of Antonoff in her character.

“That ex-boyfriend is very much an amalgamation of every ex that I’ve had, or that a friend’s had,” she said. “It’s this quotidian acceptance of unkindness that eats away at a person over a long period of time and degrades their sense of self. If someone were to say, ‘Who inspired that character?’ I’d be like, ‘Do you have time for me to give you 42 examples?'”

There are some parallels between Antonoff and Zev, those thick-rimmed glasses that appear in later episodes, for example.

To clarify the timeline, Dunham moved to London in 2020, two years after her split from Antonoff and during a period after his relationship with Kohl and before his relationship with Qualley. Dunham met her husband in early 2021 and married him later that year.

Who Is Emily Ratajkowski’s ‘Too Much’ Character Based On?

It’s unclear who Ratajkowski’s character is based on, if anyone, but signs do point to her being loosely based on Antonoff’s ex Carlotta Kohl.

Just like in the show, Dunham admitted to The Cut in 2018 that she watches Antonoff’s new girlfriend’s Instagram stories. Though she didn’t name Kohl, this was around the time she and Antonoff were publicly dating. “I thought I was kind of proving weird girls can have love too,” Dunham said. “And now he’s dating somebody who looks regular and normal and like girls are supposed to look.”

Ratajkowski revealed to Variety on July 14 that the character was initially written very differently. “At first, Lena had written her as a lawyer, and I was like, ‘I want her to be a little bit more hateable,'” she said. “She was such a smart, perfect, amazing person who was, like, posting social justice stuff online. And I was like, ‘I really want this girl to be an influencer, and I don’t think that’s leaning into stereotypes, because we’re going to get to know her in a better way, but I think the payoff could be really great at the end.'”